Watch Karen Barnes' Summer Trends 2025: Bamboo Design

Karen Barnes is an expert at identifying and interpreting key seasonal trends and translating them into commercial opportunities for florists.

Watch how Karen brings a popular summer trend to life. This Bamboo creation will showcase vibrant and eclectic colour combinations for Summer 2025. Senses of emotions like happiness, calm and joyfulness. Creating a feeling of walking through a wild meadow or open field with bustling hedgerows.

The growing emphasis on sustainability gains momentum, with an increasing number of florists and floral designers adopting foam-free designs and customers voting with their wallets when it comes to best practice. Pesticide-free flowers and biodegradable packaging will be come increasingly important. 

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With over 35 years’ experience, Karen Barnes is one of the UK’s leading consultants to the floral industry and an expert in product development, future trends & colours, and floral photography design & planning. She’s an interior floral designer, high profile wedding and event floral planner, and prominent international competition judge.​​In a distinguished career, Karen has been awarded gold medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, selected to judge two Floral Design World Cups and been voted one of the top ten florists in the UK by The Independent on Sunday Newspaper.​​Her style and influences come from new and popular flower varieties, fashion, art, travel and emerging trends on a global scale.​Karen Barnes NDSF, IoPF, AIFD, CFD, CAFA, UKFJG